Much of the day
indeed everywhere
in every situation
verbal boxing is virulent
as long as people come together
this would not go away--
the insinuation, the innuendo
the spite, the anger, the rancour
the vituperating, the swearing
the murderous threatening, the cursing
the expletives bursting
the you-go-to-hell yelling
the schadenfreude, the blaming
but for the time-constraining
the combat would last
from dawn to evening--

human nature--most unpredictable
the most selfish and mystifying
the self-justifying, the least forgiving
if you have done the recording
to the asylum you it would be sending
you would walk away, feeling like dying

while a pair of birds is watching
from the branch and to each other talking:
we are so fortunate--not like the human being!